Research on Chinese Named Entity Recognition Based on Ontology

As a critical role in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, such as Information Extraction, Machine Translation etc, Chinese Named Entity Recognition (NER) remains a challenging task because of its characteristics. This paper proposes a method of Chinese NER, which combining Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) model with domain ontology as a semantic feature besides word and part of speech features. Experiments were made to compare the two kinds of feature templates, and the precision rate and recall rate of Chinese NER rose to 90.86% and 88.23%, which showed remarkable performance of the proposed approach. Combination of ontology and CRFs method increased effectively the precision and recall of Chinese NER.